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@itEp-tf 'inganni e TRUMAN PIPER. AND E. F. BRADLEY, 0F BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO HOWE MANUFACTURING',COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.V

' Letters Patent No.17i,912, dated lLy` 12, 18.68;

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR STIGKING PINS.

T()` ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN; A

Be it known lthat we, TrinMAN PIPER and BnADLnY, ot' Birmingham, in' the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut; have in vented a new Improvement in Machine for `Sticking Pins; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in-eonnec-tion with the accompanying drawingsz and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be u. full, clear, and exact description of the same, auduhich said drawings constitutepart et' thisspecitication, and represent,'in. l

AFigure 1,"a side view,

Figure 2 a top view, land in Figure 3 detached views to illustrate the operation. A i i This invention relates to aniniprovement i'n machines for sticking pins in rowsupon papers, the object being to place pins of diierent sizes or dierent colors, or both, upon the saine paper. p A, Heretofore, in papering pins, machines have b'cen eonstructed'so that but one kind or size of pins could be stuckupon the same paper. In this invention we have succeeded in constructing a machine in wl1ieh,if desired, every row of pins may be different from the next, so that throughout a whole paper no two of the rows may be the saine; and our invention consists in the arrangement of a channel for each particular class of pins, and c ox'nr i bining therewith a eut-off, which operates so as to open the channel from which the requiredpins` will bereeeived, the other channels being closed, and each channel in its turn opened'automatically, whenever the pins in the said x channel are required. i v t To enable others to construct and use our improvement, we will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. i A is the bed-plate; B, a slide, moving in proper guides transversely across the bmed-plate, the upper surface l of the said slide being provided with longitudinal grooves d, in which the paper is crimped, and with transverse i grooves a, each the proper size to receive a pin, and in number equal to the number of pins required for each row. Cv is the crimper, hung, relativelj,r to the slide B, so that the ribsf on the said crimper will enter the longitudinal grooves d in the slide B, as seen in iig. 2, and is operated in the uoanncr hereafter described. D, the i paper-clamp, is a plate arranged upon a slide, E, and provided with a clamping-lever, F, which, when the end i ot' the paper is passed under the crimper, will 'clamp and hold the end of the paper, so Vthat whenv the plate D i is moved upon the slide E, it will'draw the paperjwith it, and so operates that after each row of pins has been i stuck, it will dran' the paper a sutlieient distance from the crimper for the insertion of" the next row, and so on,- l being intermittent-ly moved until `all the rows are stclc. Gr is a slide, arranged in 'proper guides H, and in such relative position to tne slide B, that the end efthe slidev G will just pass over the surface of the said slide B, and in its passage striking the heads of the pins, (which lie next the slide G,) will force the pins on the slide i B into and through the crimper in the paper, and the slide Gris so moved by means of the arm G1, on the lever ,l G2, pivoted at g. From another arm, G3, on the sume lever, a pa-wl, extends back to the slide-D, and operates in notches on the edge of the'sad slide D, so that in the act of returning the slide G after the pins have been i i stuck, the said pawl will more the slide D a sufficient `distance to draw the paper for the next row. Attached i to the slide Gr,'ben`eath the bed-plate, is an inclined plane or cam, J, which iniits movement on the start of the said-slide, draws down the erimpcr C by means ot' therod K, attached to the said crimper, and extending down i l se as to4 be acted upon by the cam J. By this means the crimper is pressed down so as to crimp the paper at i the proper time, and is released, by the return of the slide G, in suicient time to permit the action of the pawi AI upon the slide D to draw along the paper. L L'l L2 arethree channels, each designed to carry a different `e'las'sV of' pins, that is to say, of dierent'sizes o r of different colors, and cach channel communicating withits own particular hopper, and supplied therefrom in the usual manner. The pins entering their respective channels i 'heads up, run, by their Vown gravitation, down, and so that tht.` first pinwould lic upon the slide B, but as `it is -onl desirable that* the ffrooves in the slide B should receive ins fromonc of the channels ive rovide y e v P v P each of the'channels with an independent cut-oli`, better seen in figs. 3 and 4, andvnumbered respectively 1 2, andfS, and are arranged in. proper guides, and sustained Aby arms 4:, 5, and 6, and lie lat'upon the slide-B, se that whenthe slide B is moved in, the several cuteoil's, 1 2 3, or the one of them which is free,'w`ill moveifrom under its channel, and when the slide is again drawn, the friction ofthe cut-oft' upon thc slide causes the return of the cut-olf under the channel, se as to preventthe discharge of more pins than are required from the said channel. l v

To operate-the several cutos sorthat .the required channel shall be opened at the proper time, we arrange levers 8 9, one to each cut-off, so that when the cut-offs are .under the channel, as numbers 1 and 2, their respective levers 7 and 8 will fall down baal: ofand preventthe movement of the eut-off when the slide is moved i in to. receive the' pins, and when the lever is raised,l as denoted, for the cut-off 3, andas seen in fig. 4. 'The cut-oli' moves 4freelyunder the said lever, and` will so continue to do, discharging pins from the said channel, and cutting olf until the lever 9 is dropped behind the said eutoil`3; then,'another of the levers being raised, the cut-oli` inl that channel will operate, and the pins be received from that channel. To m'ake 'this operation automatic, We arrange a shaft, M, provided with cams 10 11 12, respectively, l'or each of the levers, and the `ieveral cams formed and operated-so as at the proper time to raise the lever, and permit the yoperation of the cut-od', as before'described, the said shaft beingjr intermittently moved by a pawl, N, upon a ratchet, 13,011v the said shaft g. thesaid'pawl being connected with the crimper C, so that the cams are moved during the feeding 'of the paper.

The proper channel opening when the slide'B is moved inward, a pin falls from the said channel into each of the grooves a on the slide B, as each groove is presentedlbeneath the said channel, until all are filled; then, the slide'being` drawn out, the cut-ofi'l closes the channel. When drawn out to the proper position beneath the paper, (the paper havin'g been previously inserted, as denoted'in blue, iig. 1,)'the lever Gr2 is turned to force the plate Gr forward, at the Sametime the crimper drops, forcing the paper into the grooves in the slide B. The slideG continuing to advance, forces the pins into and through the crimps to their proper position. Then, to reverse the movement, the lever G2` withdraws the plate, raising the crimper, at the same time moving the paper along for the second row of pins, and at thesam'e time turning the shaft M. This operation is repeated, and when l the number of rows required from the first channel, andindicatedby the cam which governs the-cut-o'lf of the p said channel, have been stuck, then the second channel is opened and pins received from that channel, and so 'Non until the paper is completely stuck..

We have represented but three channels, but it will beevident that as many channels maybe used as there `with the slide li2 substantially as herein described.

are rows of pins, or the adjustment will readily suggest itselftol those skilled in the use of this class of machinery, whereby parts of4 the saule row'may be of different kinds ofpins.

I We have represented the cut-oils of the several channelsas being at their extreme lower ends; this may be arranged so as to cut off above, and suilieiently highthat thenumber of pins to be delivered may be below Athe cut-olf. We therefore do not wish to be understood as confining:r ourselves'to .the precise arrangement of' operating the several cut-offs; but having thus fully described our invention,

What We claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. vIn combination with the several independent channels, we claim the cut-oil` device for cach of the said cbannels ,'constructed and arranged substantially as described, and operating so as :tt-the proper time to deliver the pinsfrom either or several of the channels, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

`2. The combination of the intermittentlyqevolving ratchet, cn1n-wheel-` spring-levers, and cut-oilslides 'rRUMAN luren, E. E.. BRADLEY. 

